Mariquita Jenny Moberly


Mariquita Jenny Moberly, née Phillips, was an English artist, working in oil paints and watercolours.

Biography

Moberly was born on 2 November 1855 to John Phillips and Jane Atkins Phillips at Deptford in London. Her name, mariquita, means ladybird in Spanish.
Moberly studied in Germany and under Carolus-Duran in Paris. She painted portraits, figure studies, animals and landscapes in oils, watercolours and pastels. Moberly exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, with the New Watercolour Society and at both the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol. She lived in Epsom, and later Mitcham.
In March 2013, a number of her watercolour paintings, in private possession, of a variety of subjects, were shown in the BBC television programme Antiques Roadshow. These included a 1918 self-portrait and a picture of a dog that reputedly belonged to Ernest Shackleton, along with photographs of her paintings of dogs known to be his.
Her works are in a number of public collections, including The Secret Path in the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.
She died in Mitcham, Surrey, on 1 November 1937, one day before her 82nd birthday.